"No one is harder on a talented person than the person themselves" - Linda Wilkinson ; "Trust your guts and don't follow the herd" ; "Validate direction not destination" ;

April 28, 2019

Innovation Session Notes

Today was interesting. Attended Innovation Session. Very inspiring, motivational session. Thanks Akshay Cherian.
  • Communicating to brain
  • Communicating with emotion
Different types of Questions
  • Know How
  • Know When
  • Know What
  • Know Why
Great Learnings / Habits
  • Listening at different levels
  • Insights learnt
  • Find Insights, Turn it into question
  • Seek Surpises, Harness it
  • Insights + States of Flow loop on each other
  • We can perform when it keeps us exciting and not overwhelming
  • Creativity is presence of constraints
  • Create disproportionate value
  • Solve by doing, Comfortable with failure
  • It will hurt a bit if you are doing something meaningful
Books
Geography of Genius
States of Flow Assessment
Steps
  • List, Cluster, Reorder
  • Start Challenge vs Idea
  • Turn Top barriers into Questions
  • Rate Idea Valuable / Simple
  • Turn Ideas into Steps
  • Review Ideas
  • Create and Share output
Fresher Tips
  • Work for free until they see value
Challenges / Problems / Opportunities
  • Redefinition of problem 
  • Think from Celebration
  • Pissed of is better than passion
  • Treat it as a Games
  • Breakthrough tools
  • Breakthrough environment
  • Don't define the problem by Single word
  • Meeting for Evolution not Evaluation of ideas
  • Reduce perceived Risk of Sharing
Futuristic
  • Don't operate from crisis to crisis
  • Anticipate and prepare for next-gen risks
  • Plan a budget for time and money
  • Manage time and invest time differently
  • Learn a combination of skills
Key Lessons
  • Like how we pay Monthly Bills, How much did you budget your time and money for learning, upskill or coding. I felt slap on face with this question.
  • If someone is in a role where you want to be. Look at his previous role and see what he has done to move to that role
  • If someone is successful see the pattern, practice they follow don't put it as luck, motivation. Emulate them
Sharing my Earlier Work

Why it fails


Happy Learning!!!

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